Resume

Basics

Name Ferenc Gozony
Label Visual Designer
Email fergo310@yahoo.com
Phone (949) 243-2496
Url https://cisc0-gif.github.io
Summary Game Artist building worlds through Character and Environment Concept Art and Level Design. Experienced in collaborating with designers and programmers to craft engaging, player-driven experiences. Adept at managing art direction, iterative development, and team direction. Currently pursuing a B.S. in Game Design & Interactive Media at UCI, graduating March 2026.

Work

  • 2024.09 - Present
    UI/UX Designer / Team Lead
    BranchOut, Inc.
    As Lead UI/UX Designer, I led user research by writing interview guides and organizing a team of 7 to conduct interviews identifying target audience, planning challenges, and app feedback—translating insights into an improved UI flow and better user experience. Additionally, I collaborated with the Founder on system design, interaction loops, and gamification.
    • Figma
    • Illustrator
    • Canva
    • Slack
    • Google Meet
  • 2024.06 - 2024.08
    Animation Programmer
    Project: Ether (Game)
    Was brought on to help fix critical animation, movement, and texture bugs in game. I mainly fixed issues surrounding Animation Montages, AnimGraph states, and faulty render textures from Blender to Unreal pipeline.
    • Blender
    • Unreal 5
  • 2024.06 - Present
    Art Director
    Chronomancy (Game)
    Acting as Lead Visual Designer, I created character and environment concept art to capture our game's visual style, which was used as reference material for the art and sound team I oversaw (6 people). Additionally, I also developed level designs for our procedurally generated room system, setup our Perforce server, and created a Discord bot to operate it remotely and report commits.
    • Blender
    • Unreal 5
    • Perforce
    • Python
    • Airtable
    • Krita
    • Sketchbook
    • Aseprite
    • Illustrator
  • 2024.05 - 2024.06
    Lead Artist
    Convergence (Game)
    Acting as Lead Artist on this project, I drafted, presented, and implemented all assets for this game from concept to production, mainly working in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
    • Illustrator
    • Photoshop/GIMP
    • Audacity
    • Unity
    • C#
  • 2024.01 - 2024.09
    Office Assistant
    Gozony Legal Nurse Consulting
    Assisting in file organization, billing, and advertisement, I prepared case files, invoiced clients and documented receipts on Quickbooks, and created logos, business cards, labels and Word templates, as well as a custom website in Wix (www.gozonylnc.com).
    • Illustrator
    • Wix
    • Screen Printing
  • 2023.01 - 2023.12
    Graphic Designer
    SECO-LARM, USA.
    Under mentorship of the Senior Graphic Designer, we worked to produce marketing materials including social media posts (IG, FB, TW/X, Pinterest, Reels/TikTok), web banners, advertisements, and product photos and literature, as well as maintaining an organized system of visual assets for design use.
    • Illustrator
    • Photoshop
    • InDesign
    • ConstantContact
    • WordPress
    • Screen Printing

Education

  • 2022.09 - 2026.09

    B.S in Game Design and Interactive Media
    University of California, Irvine (UCI)
    Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS)
    • Minor in Film & Media Studies
    • Video Game Development Club
    • Film Club
    • Art Club

Certificates

C++ Course
SoloLearn 2021-03-12
Python Core Course
SoloLearn 2018-12-03
HTML Course
SoloLearn 2017-11-23

Skills

Graphic Design
Adobe Illustrator (3 years)
Adobe InDesign (3 years)
Adobe Photoshop/GIMP (3 years)
Aseprite (2 years)
Paint Tool SAI (1 year)
WordPress (1 year)
Krita (1 year)
Game Development
Unreal 5 (1 year)
Unity (3 years)
Git/GitHub (4 years)
Perforce Helix Core (1 year)
GameMaker (3 years)
Airtable (1 year)
Visual Studio (2 years)
Blender (2 years)
Rigging + Animation (1 year)
UI/UX Design (3 years)
2D Illustration (2 years)
Audacity (3 years)
Programming Languages
Python (6 years)
MS-DOS & Bash (6 years)
GameMaker Language (3 years)
C# (2 years)
C++ (1 year)
Markdown, HTML, JSON, CSV (6+ years)

Languages

English
Native speaker
Spanish
Intermediate

References

Christina Bartel
Supervisor at Gozony Legal Nurse Consulting
James Hollifield
Senior Graphic Designer for SECO-LARM, USA.